18th Century Material Culture

Leather Pocket Books

Trade Cards
Trade Card of Peter Jacob at the Bible and Letter-Case, London
c. 1757
(Lewis Walpole Library)
Trade Card of Peter Jacob at the Bible and Letter-Case, London
c. 1757
(Lewis Walpole Library)
Trade Card of Peter Jacob at the Bible and Letter-Case, London
c. 1757
(Lewis Walpole Library)
 Leather
Pocket Books
English Leather Pocket Book Marked “Samuel Pepys / Constantinople Anna 1627”
1627
(Museum of Leathercraft)
American Leather Pocket Book from New Hampshire
Property of Samuel Lane of Stratham 1746
(New Hampshire Historical Society)
American Leather Pocket Book from New Hampshire
Property of Samuel Lane of Stratham 1746
(New Hampshire Historical Society)
American Leather Pocket Book from New Hampshire
Property of Samuel Lane of Stratham 1746
(New Hampshire Historical Society)
American Leather Pocket Book from New Hampshire
Property of Samuel Lane of Stratham 1746
(New Hampshire Historical Society)
American Tooled Leather Pocket Book from New Hampshire
Property of Timothy Walker of Rumford 1741
(New Hampshire Historical Society)
American Embossed Leather Pocket Book with Paper Currency
Property of Benjamin Nurse of Boston 1743
(Skinner)
English Leather Pocket Book Marked “ROBERT LONG: LONDON 1751”
1751
(Museum of Leathercraft)
English Leather Pocket Book Marked “ROBERT LONG: LONDON 1751”
1751
(Museum of Leathercraft)
 Leather Pocket Book
Property of “M I” 1763
(Winterthur)
 Leather Pocket Book
Property of “M I” 1763
(Winterthur)
Leather Pocket Book Marked "Constantinople"
1696
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
 American Leather Pocket Book
"MAY Ye 7Th 1753 EARL WESTGATE HIS BOOK"
(Winterthur)
 American Leather Pocket Book
"MAY Ye 7Th 1753 EARL WESTGATE HIS BOOK"
(Winterthur)
American Leather Pocket Book
“LD 1776”
(Private Collection)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Liberty”
c. 1778
(Guthman Collection)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Liberty”
c. 1778
(Guthman Collection)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Liberty”
c. 1778
(New Hampshire Historical Society)
American Leather Pocket Books Marked “Liberty”
c. 1778
(Guthman Collection)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “ In the defence of amarican liberties 1777”
1777
(Historic Deerfield Collection)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Boston” Owned by Ezra Tilden of Dedham, Massachusetts
1743
(Skinner / Photo Courtesy Joel Bohy)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Boston” Owned by Ezra Tilden of Dedham, Massachusetts
1743
(Skinner / Photo Courtesy Joel Bohy)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Boston” Owned by Ezra Tilden of Dedham, Massachusetts
1743
(Skinner / Photo Courtesy Joel Bohy)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Boston” Owned by Ezra Tilden of Dedham, Massachusetts
1743
(Skinner / Photo Courtesy Joel Bohy)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Boston”
“John Carll, his Pockit Back 1760”
(Grogan & Co.)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Boston”
“John Carll, his Pockit Back 1760”
(Grogan & Co.)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Boston”
“John Carll, his Pockit Back 1760”
(Grogan & Co.)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Boston”
“John Carll, his Pockit Back 1760”
(Grogan & Co.)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “”Rhode Island / NH”
1777
(Winterthur)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “”Rhode Island / NH”
1777
(Winterthur)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “”Rhode Island / NH”
1777
(Winterthur)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “WOODSTOCK” from Connecticut
c. 1780
(Winterthur)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “WOODSTOCK” from Connecticut
c. 1780
(Winterthur)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Philadelphia” from Pennsylvania
c. 1770 - 1780
(Winterthur)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Success to Washington” / “177 5“
1775
(Winterthur)
American Leather Pocket Book Marked “Success to Washington” / “177 5“
1775
(Winterthur)
Embroidered Leather
Pocket Books
Embroidered Red Morocco Leather Pocket Book
Marked “TETUAN 1727”
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
Embroidered Red Morocco Leather Pocket Book
Marked “Pierre Boissier / Constantinople 1756”
(Bonhams)
Embroidered Red Morocco Leather Pocket Book
Marked “Pierre Boissier / Constantinople 1756”
(Bonhams)
Embroidered Red Morocco Leather Pocket Book
Marked “Constantinople 1766”
(Bonhams)
 Embroidered Red Morocco Leather Pocket BooK
Marked “GODFREY HEATHCOTE CHESTERFIELD 1755 / TETUAN”
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
 Embroidered Red Morocco Leather Pocket Books
Marked “JOHN MONEY 1769” & “THOMAS REVELL 1728”
(William Guthman Collection)
Embroidered Moroccan Leather Pocket Book of Captain Joesph H. Bubier of Marblehead, Massachusetts
Commander of the Schooner “Unity” During the American War for Independence 1773
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
Embroidered Moroccan Leather Pocket Book of Captain Joesph H. Bubier of Marblehead, Massachusetts
Commander of the Schooner “Unity” During the American War for Independence 1773
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
Embroidered Moroccan Leather Pocket Book of Captain Joesph H. Bubier of Marblehead, Massachusetts
Commander of the Schooner “Unity” During the American War for Independence 1773
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
Embroidered Moroccan Leather Pocket Book of Captain Joesph H. Bubier of Marblehead, Massachusetts
Commander of the Schooner “Unity” During the American War for Independence 1773
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
Embroidered Red Morocco Leather Pocket Book
Marked “Signr. Giovanni Constantinople 1777”
(Bonhams)
Embroidered Red Morocco Leather Pocket Book
Marked “Constantinopel 1779”
(Bonhams)
Embroidered Red Morocco Leather Pocket Book
Marked “Constantinople 1784”
(Christies)
Embroidered Red Morocco Leather Pocket Book
Marked “L: M: Gruys / Constantinople 1777'”
(Christies)
 Embroidered Red Morocco Leather Pocket Book
Marked “Mlle Due Monnier / Constantinople 1787”
(Bonhams)
 Leather
Pocket Books
With Tongues
Leather Pocket Book
1757
(Private Collection)
Leather Pocket Book
1757
(Private Collection)
Leather Pocket Book
1757
(Private Collection)
American Leather Pocket Book Owned by Loyalist Gideon White
1771
(Nova Muse)
American Leather Pocket Book Owned by Loyalist Gideon White
1771
(Nova Muse)
American Leather Pocket Book Owned by Loyalist Gideon White
1771
(Nova Muse)
American Leather Pocket Book Owned by Loyalist Gideon White
1771
(Nova Muse)
American Leather Pocket Book
Dated October 15, 1777
(Private Collection)
American Leather Pocket Book
Dated October 15, 1777
(Private Collection)
 American Leather Pocket Book
18th Century- Early 19th Century
(Early American History Auctions)
 American Leather Pocket Book
18th Century- Early 19th Century
(Early American History Auctions)
 Leather Pocket Book & Notebook
Property of William Daniel 1777
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
 American Leather Pocket Book
Property of John Hancock 18th Century
(Old State House, Boston)
English Leather Pocket Book Marked "HENRY HUGHES WEST GRINSTED/ SUSSEX 1779."
by "William Bibby, Maker, at the Black Cap, In Fenwick-street, LIVERPOOL."
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
English Leather Pocket Book Marked "HENRY HUGHES WEST GRINSTED/ SUSSEX 1779."
by "William Bibby, Maker, at the Black Cap, In Fenwick-street, LIVERPOOL."
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
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Leather Pocket Book Recovered from the Body of North Carolina General William Lee Davidson
Contains His Papers and Recovered from His Body by the British after He was Killed at the Battle of Cowan's Ford, January 31 1781
(Guilford Courthouse National Military Park)
Leather Pocket Book Marked “H. Fenner’s Pocket Book”
18th Century
(Private Collection)
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English Leather Pocket Book Recovered from the Wreck of the General Carleton
1785
(Polish Maritime Museum)
 American Leather Pocket Book
Property of Benjamin Franklin
(The Collection of Robert W. Sillivan IV)
Leather Pocketbook Reportedly Found on Major John André at the Time of His Capture
c. 1780
(Fort Ticonderoga)
 Leather
Pocket Books
With Strings
 American Leather Pocket Book from New York
Belonged to a Member of the Du Bois Family c. 1770 - 1776
(New York Historical Society)
 Leather
Pocket Books
With Clasps
Ottoman Gilt Stamped Leather Pocket Book Marked “FISHER MOUNT / TOWER HILL 1714”
1714
(Christies)
 Leather Pocket Book
Mid 18th Century
(George C. Neuman Collection, Valley Forge National Historic Park)
English Leather Pocket Book Owned by George Dudley of the East India Company
1749
(Ruby Lane - Trinity Antiques)
English Leather Pocket Book Owned by George Dudley of the East India Company
1749
(Ruby Lane - Trinity Antiques)
English Leather Pocket Book Owned by George Dudley of the East India Company
1749
(Ruby Lane - Trinity Antiques)
Dutch Leather Pocket Books Owned by Akton & Evert Scheer, Distillers
1754
(E & A Scheer DistillersArchives)
English Leather Pocket Book Owned by R. Lawler
1758
(Museum of Leathercraft, Northampton)
Leather Pocket Book Owned by William Brogdon of Virginia
1766
(Private Collection)
Leather Pocket Book Owned by David Kronig
1772
(Meg Andrews)
Leather Pocket Book Owned by David Kronig
1772
(Meg Andrews)
Leather Pocket Book Owned by David Kronig
1772
(Meg Andrews)
Leather Pocket Book Owned by David Kronig
1772
(Meg Andrews)
American Leather Pocket Book with Brass Clasp Owned by Lieutenant Jabez Pritchard of Derby, Connecticut
Papers of Cooking Supplies c. 1775
(National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
American Leather Pocket Book Owned by Dominicas Libby
”Dominicus Libby / his book October 28 / th 1776”
(Maine Historical Society)
American Leather Pocket Book Owned by by Benjamin Darling of Pembroke, Massachusetts
Purchased in Boston on March 18, 1776, the Day after the British Evacuation
(Skinner - Photograph Courtesy Joel Bohy)
American Leather Pocket Book Owned by by Benjamin Darling of Pembroke, Massachusetts
Purchased in Boston on March 18, 1776, the Day after the British Evacuation
(Skinner - Photograph Courtesy Joel Bohy)
American Leather Pocket Book Owned by by Benjamin Darling of Pembroke, Massachusetts
Purchased in Boston on March 18, 1776, the Day after the British Evacuation
(Skinner - Photograph Courtesy Joel Bohy)
American Leather Pocket Book Owned by by Benjamin Darling of Pembroke, Massachusetts
Purchased in Boston on March 18, 1776, the Day after the British Evacuation
(Skinner - Photograph Courtesy Joel Bohy)
American Leather Pocket Book Owned by by Benjamin Darling of Pembroke, Massachusetts
Purchased in Boston on March 18, 1776, the Day after the British Evacuation
(Skinner - Photograph Courtesy Joel Bohy)
French Moroccan Leather Wallet of King Louis XVI of France
18th Century
(Versailles)
 Leather
Coin Purses
 Text

American Leather Money Coin Purse

“18th Century”
(New Hampshire Historical Society)
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